 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.core;

 /**
  * Provides the implementation of signed bundle support for the framework adaptor.
  * <p>
  * Clients may implement this interface.
  * </p>
  * @since 3.1
  */
 public interface SignedBundleSupport {
     /**
      * Create a new SignedBundle object
      * @return a new SignedBundle object
      */
     public SignedBundle createSignedBundle();

     /**
      * Matches the distinguished name chain against a pattern of a distinguished name chain.
      *
      * @param pattern the pattern of distinguished name (DN) chains to match
      * against the dnChain.
      * @see org.eclipse.osgi.framework.adaptor.FrameworkAdaptor#matchDNChain(String, String[])
      * @return true if a dnChain matches the pattern. A value of false is returned
      * if bundle signing is not supported.
      * @throws IllegalArgumentException
      */
     public boolean matchDNChain(String pattern, String dnChain[]);
 }

